Senate panel backs Moniz for energy chief

Published April 18, 2013 3:15pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Energy Committee has overwhelmingly endorsed the nomination of physicist Ernest Moniz to lead the Energy Department.

The energy panel voted 21-1 Thursday to endorse Moniz, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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